The Normative Complexity of Private Security: Beyond Legal Regulation and Stigmatization

Math Noortmann; Juliette Koning

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The Normative Complexity of Private Security: Beyond Legal Regulation and Stigmatization

Math Noortmann, Juliette Koning

Oxford Brookes University

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the normative complexity of private security. It formulates a critique of the stigmatization of private security companies and of the emphasis in the literature
on the limitations of legal regulation, highlighting the role of self-regulation in the form of corporate ethics and (international) branch standards. Based on a review of scholarly
literature, (inter)national cases, and examples from fieldwork in South Africa, the chapter captures the growing plurality of actors and voices in a vastly diversifying private security sector. In order to overcome the traditional bias regarding private security and
its corporate sector, the authors advocate an organizational anthropological approach to uncover regulatory alternatives and the ethical and normative diversity that is essential to a comprehensive understanding of the privatization of security.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology
Editors	Marie-Claire Foblets, Mark Goodale, Maria Sapignoli, Olaf Zenker
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Oxford University Press (OUP)
Pages	608-625
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9780191876226
ISBN (Print)	9780198840534
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198840534.013.36
Publication status	Published - 8 Oct 2020

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Name	The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology

Keywords

private security
stigmatisation
South-Africa
ethics
Security
organisational anthropology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Anthropology
Law
Political Science and International Relations

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Noortmann, M., & Koning, J. (2020). The Normative Complexity of Private Security: Beyond Legal Regulation and Stigmatization. In M.-C. Foblets, M. Goodale, M. Sapignoli, & O. Zenker (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology (pp. 608-625). (The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198840534.013.36

The Normative Complexity of Private Security: Beyond Legal Regulation and Stigmatization. / Noortmann, Math; Koning, Juliette.
The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology. ed. / Marie-Claire Foblets; Mark Goodale; Maria Sapignoli; Olaf Zenker. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020. p. 608-625 (The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology).

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Noortmann, M & Koning, J 2020, The Normative Complexity of Private Security: Beyond Legal Regulation and Stigmatization. in M-C Foblets, M Goodale, M Sapignoli & O Zenker (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology. The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology, Oxford University Press (OUP), Oxford, pp. 608-625. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198840534.013.36

Noortmann M, Koning J. The Normative Complexity of Private Security: Beyond Legal Regulation and Stigmatization. In Foblets MC, Goodale M, Sapignoli M, Zenker O, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP). 2020. p. 608-625. (The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology). Epub 2020 Oct 8. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198840534.013.36

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